Symbiotic Assemblages: Towards an Interspecies Memory
Symbiotic Assemblages is a 16mm installation that explores the symbiopoetics and symbiopolitics of lichens as a metaphor for new possible futures and forms of interspecies collaboration. Through 16mm projectors and digital assemblages with 3D scanning, the work merges the image of a human body with that of a lichen, blurring the boundaries between organisms and questioning our relationship with nature in a world shaped by ecological crisis.
The project stems from a reflection on the cinematic medium: we create machines to replicate and represent the world we are destroying. Within this paradox, moving images become a space for negotiation between the analog and the digital, the human and the non-human, the living and the inanimate. Thus, Symbiotic Assemblages proposes an interspecies memory where coexistence is not only possible but necessary to imagine new ways of inhabiting time and matter.
Sound design: Sebastian Cifuentes @cifues
3D support: Lucian Meister
16mm print with @antoniocastles
Photos: @pablohassmann
